iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They want it to be temporary... nice idea!

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Radio 3 vs Classic FM.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/10/2026

On 12 October, MPs will debate rejoining the EU after a petition passed 100,000 signatures. The more MPs who turn up armed with our polling, the harder the case is to ignore. Use our tool: bestforbritain.org/take-action/tell…

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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Evolution can innovate without inventing. Cell type families can retain ancient regulatory “vocabularies”, while individual cell types evolve by reshuffling how those motifs are combined. @natecoevo.nature.com New cell types from old regulatory words. We like this! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#fallfriday particularly good this week and its not yet 10!

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afigure.bsky.social @afigure.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He had a kingdom of evil book, under a German history book. He was, contrived like that. #Fallfriday

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The Fall - Garden - (Live at the Hacienda, Manchester, UK, 1984)

YouTube video by Cherry Red Records

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tuesday

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

David Hockney "Still Life Blue Guitar 4th April 1982" Composite Polaroid.

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Heres how i solved the problem of nudging the stylus whenever i turned it on/ off #lenco

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Anthony Howe is a kinetic sculptor who creates wind-driven sculptures resembling pulsing, alien creatures and vortices. This one is in downtown Montreal. Original post

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Didn’t have the best night’s sleep last night, seems to be a thing of late but at 0212hrs this was and has been my ear worm all day, small positives eh 😉 Great video here youtu.be/O465enGz03w?...

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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Woke fertilizer virus

Brazilian scientist spent 40 years perfecting bacteria that feed crops nitrogen from the air. Her $2 treatment now replaces $50 fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion/year, and prevents 230 million tons of CO2 emissions. She just won the World Food Prize.
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I read *one* poem on here and my feed is full of poems. I look at *one* wildlife pic and my feed is full of wildlife. I don't want it to wok like this! #bluesky

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This humanoid robot training for the “Robot Olympics” in Beijing ran too fast, failed to stop, slammed into a safety cushion, and broke at the waist. Possibly the first career ending injury in robotic athletics. Original post

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A lot of the record labels now put microchips in the LPs. That’s why they need 180 grams. Some of those grams are the microchip. They use it to collect data about if people call the LPs “vinyls”, and when they do, the label tells the artist and the artist gets sad. That’s how they make dreampop.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Telegraph are determined to make this a right vs left debate. It isn't. It's about who should own our press: a few billionaires, or a genuinely diverse range of organisations - including plenty who disagree with me? Actual media pluralism & a free press.

Michael Deacon - Zack Polanski may be a clown but he's also a threat to your freedom. Don't be fooled by the Green leaders imbecilic exterior - his war on right wing "misinformation" reveals his true, authoritarian nature

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Kini, P., Wong, J., McInnis, S., Gabana, N., & Brown, J. W. (2016), «The effects of gratitude expression on neural activity», NeuroImage, 128, 1–10. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.12.040 Original post

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

EMOM (Electronic Music Open Mic) York, #25 is on 18th November. Message me if you want to perform! #emom #electronicmusicopenmic

electronic music open mic, York, 18th November

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Mauricio González-Forero @mauriciogforero.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Updated preprint: “A mathematical synthesis of genetics, development, and evolution”. Much of our understanding of phenotypic evolution relies on quantitative genetics, which in turn relies on what is known as the infinitesimal model. Thread. 1/10 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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A mathematical synthesis of genetics, development, and evolution

Mathematically integrating genetics, development, and evolution is a longstanding challenge. A prevalent approach is quantitative genetics underpinned by the infinitesimal model, which considers a sim...

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Westerns UK @westerns.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Water companies will be able to charge consumers higher prices during droughts under plans being considered by Ofwat. So they sell off the reservoirs and now they're going to bleed us dry. RENATIONALISE THE GREEDY BASTARDS

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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Japan is using piezoelectric floor tiles in busy areas like Shibuya and Tokyo Stations to convert footsteps into clean electricity. Original post

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toscanini dacron @mintcaketime.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

inside you are three wolves

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Heavy chiseling (like Henry Moore's later work)

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byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

rec of the day II: ZOH AMBA "eyes full" (matador LP) amazing folky vocal debut by this GREAT avant reed player reveals her tennessee roots. a bit like scout niblett crossed w/ rebby sharp w/ great backing including jim whte on tubs. apparently zoh can do it all! zohamba.bandcamp.com/album/eyes-f...

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Eyes Full, by Zoh Amba

13 track album

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/08/2026

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

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The AI Demand Bubble

If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in...

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Paul Klee : Chimney Movement, 1915 Watercolor on paper attached to Klee's custom mount 7-7/8 x 6-1/2 in | 20 x 16.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Further description in the alt text 👇

Style and Context: The painting dates to a critical transition phase in Klee's career right after his transformative 1914 trip to Tunisia, where he famously declared that color and he were one. Like many of his architectural abstractions from 1915, it deconstructs urban components—such as rooftop chimneys—into rhythmic, dancing geometric blocks and patches of color.

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Simon Hickinbotham @franticspider.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

There are lots of esses in possesses

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Niall MacKenzie @derrymac.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Fall - I'm Into C.B. At sixteen I drank cheap sherry, Got plastered in the stations and swing parks, Off my mother I stole some money, Had a treat with a bottle of Martini, So sick I couldn't walk or sit, Since then I've not touched it... youtu.be/9bjmd4IDwtA?... #FallFriday *just about!

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I'm Into C.B. (Live, Traxx, Detroit, 22 April 1983)

YouTube video by The Fall - Topic

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Morning all. Photographer Eric de Maré. St Edward's, Brotherton, with Ferrybridge B power station behind, 1960s.

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Nick of the Vermont Foothills @precursive.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thinking of one of my mentors. Along with my parents, all have passed on. I miss them deeply. It all makes me feel like an old man. It all makes me feel like a scared child. One of his writings to me I re-read often ❤️💔

"The school may fail all of us, and become another warehouse for industry. Our degrees from there may be worthless in the end, and we may starve on some cold street. Yet we will have fought the fight we were placed here to fight, and will have done our best with the limited tools we have been given. In the end, our spearpoints will be blunted by the ravages of time and circumstance. and we will all fail. The world, this world, will indeed be the world, whatever that means. And in the rubble and pain and waste there will be miracles, some obvious but most unobserved. We will know each other by a passing glance, and then lose track of
each other in the twilight, and tears will flow. Naked and ravaged, against all odds and for no apparent reason, we will smile and attain a strange peace as we gasp for our last. This, my dear brother in arms, is the call of the Buddha.

Love to you,
Brother jazz dark idiot of the wandering fools banquet"

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